Determinants and prediction of broad-scale plant richness across the western neotropics

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 470-491

  Distler, Trisha ^a   Jørgensen, Peter M ^a   Graham, Alan ^a   Davidse, Gerrit ^a   Jiménez, Iván ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad scale species richness; Neotropics; Regional effects; Spatial heterogeneity; Species energy; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

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EID: 70350516775     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2008034     Document Type: Article

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